Two students have been temporarily
removed from a high school in Staten Island, New York, for tormenting a
15-year-old girl before she committed suicide by jumping in front a
train.

A source with knowledge of the matter
said that the pair 'abused and made fun of' Felecia Garcia after rumors
started spreading around Tottenville High School that the sophomore had
sex with four members of the football team.

‘The dismissed students were not on
the school's team. These kids used poor judgment, and they did something
they're going to have to live with for the rest of their lives,’ the
source told The Advance.

As of Friday, no members of the
football team were found to have played a role in taunting the
15-year-old girl, said the source.

‘If it comes out these [players] were
bullying this girl and there's presented proof, they'll be removed from
the school,’ the source said.

The Staten Island had been branded a 'slut' and humiliated by classmates after a video of her having sex with four football players was posted online for everyone to see.

According to sources at Tottenville High, entered into group sex with the four players last Friday after attending a wild party following her school's win over a local rival.

The tragic freshman ended her life on Wednesday after the video was shared among classmates and the NYPD has now interviewed the four players who have insisted to police that the sex was consensual.

'It was just the bullying that got to her," said Garcia's aunt, Margarita Pabon. 'This is a shocking loss to the family. It's already done. We can't change it.'

Pabon said on Friday she was trying to find 'beautiful clothes' for the 15-year-od girl for her upcoming funeral.

A friend of the teenager said that she was devastated after two 17-year-old classmates began to torment her about the sexual encounter.

Worrying: The teen, pictured on Monday, had signalled that she was depressed on Twitter and Instagram

'Kids are saying she had sex with some guys from the football team at a party after the game.' said a friend of Garcia's to the New York Daily News.

'Later on they wouldn't leave her alone about it. They just kept bullying her and bullying her.'

'This poor girl was called a slut. She was teased on Facebook,” a classmate, Victoria, said yesterday to the New York Post.

The four football players are believed to be aged between 15 and 16 years old.

'They said at no time was the victim pressured into doing anything,' said a police source.

One
friend, Mariah Alimossy, who had lived with foster child Garcia for a
few months said, 'I asked her what was wrong after the weekend because
she seemed distracted.'

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'She became self-conscious from all of the teasing. She was asking if she looked fat or ugly.'

After
two school administrators became aware of the abuse that Garcia was
suffering they arranged a meeting on Wednesday between the teenage girl
and the two 17-year-old boys.

According
to sources at the school one of the boys denied teasing her and the
other refused to attend the counseling session - and according to the
NYPD the boy who didn't come to the meeting later continued to ridicule
Garcia.

Senior Alissa Compitello, 17, recalled: 'She said, ‘I have mediation with so many people.’ I told her to keep her head up, and she said, ‘I’ll be fine.’ Those are the last words I heard from her.'

Following the revelations that members of the football team had contributed to Garcia's fragile state of mind, police were patrolling the school because of threats against the players.

'I hope the football team feels guilty for what they did to her,' said Stephanie Imparato, 15.

Hostile environment: Garcia was reportedly tormented by several classmates after rumors started spreading around Tottenville High School that the sophomore had group sex with four football players

Tragic: Felicia, 15, pictured left and right,
leaped to her death at around 3.15pm on Wednesday at the Huguenot Staten
Island Railway station platform

Felicia Garcia, 15, sobbing, put down
her school bag and purposefully fell backwards to her death at around
3.15pm on at the Huguenot Staten Island Railway station platform, which
was packed with fellow Tottenville High School students.

The
teen, who friends claimed had long been tormented by school bullies, in
particular football players, tweeted on Monday: 'I cant. i'm done. I
give up.'

The same day she
posted photographs of herself on Instagram where she appears beaten and
bruised, with her lips seemingly cut or sewn together. She added the
hashtag 'beatup.'

A
friend, Alissa Compitello, tweeted yesterday that the relentless
bullying Felicia was dealt at school had driven the student to take her
own life.

'SHE WAS BULLIED... SHE WOULDN'T HAVE DONE IT IF SHE WASN'T BULLIED,' the teen wrote.

Earlier, Compitello tweeted: 'All this girl wanted was to be left alone... and nobody could do that for her. #prayforfelicia.'

Another
pal, Domenica Modica, said her father carried Felicia to the ambulance
stretcher and tried to revive her before she was rushed to Staten Island
University Hospital.

She was pronounced dead just before 5pm.

Bullied: Friends said Felicia, pictured, was relentlessly picked on at school and this drove her to take her own life

Felicia had hinted of her depression on social media, with posts becoming increasingly intense in recent days.

On
her Instagram account, she had a picture of herself grinning with the
word 'Depressed' covering her eyes. The caption read: 'Just because
someone is smiling
doesn't make them happy.'

Tragic Felicia moved from foster home to foster home after her parents died, leaving her and younger brother orphans. She also spent time living at friends' houses and at her ex-boyfriend's place.

'(She) had a terrible life on top of
all the heartache — bullies at school taunted her and spread rumors,' Gabriella Leone, whose younger sister
witnessed the incident, told The New York Post.

But Compitello, who, like hundreds of
Tottenville students, wore black for mourning on Thursday and purple
to symbolise the colour of the school and anti-bullying, said she never
expected Felicia to do something so drastic.

'She was never upset, that's the thing. None of us saw this coming,' she told the SI Advance.

'She was saying "I have mediation
with so many people," and I said, 'Are you okay?' She said, "I am fine.
Don't worry about me." She was smiling. That's how she was.'

Harrowing: On Monday, Felicia tweeted 'I cant, im done, I give up'

Depressed: On her Instagram account, she had a picture of her eyes crossed over by the word 'Depressed' with the caption, 'just because someone is smiling doesn't make them happy'

Her friend, Dawn DiBenedetto, 17, added that Felicia never did drugs, and even shook her head 'no' when the topic arose.

'I'm still in shock; we're all in shock; because she's not the person you'd see this coming from. She was a good kid.'

A Facebook tribute page
'RIPFeliciaGarciaStopBullying' has been set up for the girl and by Thursday afternoon had more than 7,500 likes.

Friends
and well-wishers were also tweeting about the shocking death using the hashtag
'RIPFeliciaGarcia.'

Luisa
De Luca tweeted: 'Rest in the sweetest peace Felicia Garcia, you will
always be in our hearts forever. You didn't deserve this..'

@KaylaJadex0
posted the last picture she took with her friend, adding 'REST IN PEACE
FELICIA GARCIA I'M SO BROKEN THAT YOU THOUGHT YOU HAD TO GO..

Station: Felicia, sobbing, jumped in front of the train at the Huguenot Staten Island Railway station platform, pictured

Footballers: Friends said football players were behind the incessant bullying

The NYC Department of Education said in a statement that Chancellor Dennis Walcott has reached out to the student's guardian and sent a crisis team to the school.

An emotional principal John Tuminaro called his students to break the news of Felicia's horrific death, which many were already circulating on their cell phones.

Felicia's friends are holding a candlelight vigil today at the station where she was killed, and are making bracelets to raise money for a memorial in the bullied teen's honour and to give to Felicia's younger brother.

Nearly two years ago exactly, 18-year-old Kyle Jensen jumped to his death at the same train station. He had also attended Tottenville, although only briefly.